Crossword clues for vapour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vapored; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaporing.] [From Vapor, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written also vapour.]
To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
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To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]
Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.
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To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.
Poets used to vapor much after this manner.
--Milton.We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them.
--Walpole.
Vapor \Va"por\, v. t. To send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid. [Written also vapour.]
He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away,
Another, sighing, vapor forth his soul.
--B. Jonson.
Vapor \Va"por\, n. [OE. vapour, OF. vapour, vapor, vapeur, F. vapeur, L. vapor; probably for cvapor, and akin to Gr. ? smoke, ? to breathe forth, Lith. kvepti to breathe, smell, Russ. kopote fine soot. Cf. Vapid.] [Written also vapour.]
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(Physics) Any substance in the gaseous, or a["e]riform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
Note: The term vapor is sometimes used in a more extended sense, as identical with gas; and the difference between the two is not so much one of kind as of degree, the latter being applied to all permanently elastic fluids except atmospheric air, the former to those elastic fluids which lose that condition at ordinary temperatures. The atmosphere contains more or less vapor of water, a portion of which, on a reduction of temperature, becomes condensed into liquid water in the form of rain or dew. The vapor of water produced by boiling, especially in its economic relations, is called steam.
Vapor is any substance in the gaseous condition at the maximum of density consistent with that condition. This is the strict and proper meaning of the word vapor.
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In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
The vapour which that fro the earth glood [glided].
--Chaucer.Fire and hail; snow and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word.
--Ps. cxlviii. 8. Wind; flatulence. [Obs.]
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Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
--James iv. 14. pl. An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues. ``A fit of vapors.''
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(Pharm.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor. --Brit. Pharm. Vapor bath.
A bath in vapor; the application of vapor to the body, or part of it, in a close place; also, the place itself.
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(Chem.) A small metallic drying oven, usually of copper, for drying and heating filter papers, precipitates, etc.; -- called also air bath. A modified form is provided with a jacket in the outside partition for holding water, or other volatile liquid, by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the required degree.
Vapor burner, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon.
Vapor density (Chem.), the relative weight of gases and vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases and vaporizable substances as compared with hydrogen, when multiplied by two, or when compared with air and multiplied by 28.8, gives the molecular weight.
Vapor engine, an engine worked by the expansive force of a vapor, esp. a vapor other than steam.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of vapor; see -or.
Wiktionary
n. cloud diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become vapour; to be emitted or circulated as vapour. 2 (context transitive English) To turn into vapour. 3 (context intransitive English) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster. 4 To emit vapour or fumes.
WordNet
n. a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance [syn: vapor]
the process of becoming a vapor [syn: vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, evaporation]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "vapour".
Manner of performing the experiments--Action of distilled water in comparison with the solutions--Carbonate of ammonia, absorbed by the roots--The vapour absorbed by the glands--Drops on the disc--Minute drops applied to separate glands--Leaves immersed in weak solutions--Minuteness of the doses which induce aggregation of the protoplasm--Nitrate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Phosphate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Other salts of ammonia--Summary and concluding remarks on the action of salts of ammonia.
Which fills this vapour, as the aereal hue Of fountain-gazing roses fills the water, Flows from thy mighty sister.
Next, glorious bars of light sprang up across the eastern sky, and through them the radiant messengers of the dawn came speeding upon their arrowy way, scattering the ghostly vapours and awaking the mountains with a kiss, as they flew from range to range and longitude to longitude.
The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.
The minutest trace of digitalin moistened with sulphuric and treated with bromine vapour gives a rose colour, turning to mauve.
Hitherto the mountain had always been hidden in mist, but now its radiant beauty was unveiled for many thousand feet, although the base was still wrapped in vapour so that the lofty peak or pillar, towering nearly twenty thousand feet into the sky, appeared to be a fairy vision, hanging between earth and heaven, and based upon the clouds.
I could see that great jungles of unknown tree-ferns, calamites, lepidodendra, and sigillaria lay outside the city, their fantastic frondage waving mockingly in the shifting vapours.
Sheep moved, grazing on the slopes of Creag Dubh, and behind me white trails of vapour rose and fell in strange convoluted billows above the cliff-edge where fulmars wheeled in constant flight, soaring, still-winged on the up-draughts.
Only from the tennis-court building, in its secluded corner of the famous demesne, did gleams of gaslight faintly mitigate the dank, muffling vapour.
He turned from the inscriptions to face the room with its bizarre contents, and saw that the kylix on the floor, in which the ominous efflorescent powder had lain, was giving forth a cloud of thick, greenish-black vapour of surprising volume and opacity.
There was nothing to relate beyond the looming up of that form when the greenish-black vapour from the kylix parted, and Willett was too tired to ask himself what had really occurred.
Many a wiser man than I had been mystified by dyspepsia and melancholic vapours.
The Treacy sisters stood on top of the Cliffs of Moher, taking in the enormity of the vista before them: a haze of misty-whites, abstract purples and blue vapours that had once been sea and land.
Garonne below the trembling radiance was faintly obscured by the lightest vapour.
And then would his nostrils begin to lift and sniff at the creeping up of a thick pestiferous vapour.